The one other think I needed urgently were the player disks (meeples) and the villager-tokens that represent the fleeing people of the island. For the player disks I first actually thought about hexagonal ones because that would be fitting to the boards hexagonal playing fields. But then I realized the…
Now I had these Powerpoint slights of my game as a first draft. Easiest way to start was to print it out. DIN A4. Nice, but much too small. Though really nice to look at my first offline draft. But so I decided to use multipage printing 2x2, which is…
Well, I had all these ideas about a game, but how should I make a game out of it. I need a story, rules, tables, a designed board, tokens, players aides and lots of other stuff - and I have non-so-ever knowledge of designing or design-apps on the computer. So…
Some years ago when playing games I started to have ideas on how to improve the games. I did not like this, I thought you could improve that and some house rules came along as well. I also had thoughts about creating something on my own. Two friends whom I…
For me playing started very early. When I was still very young we played often 4 very small games as a family of 4 in the evening. You received 1 to 4 points in each game depending on your rank. The one with the highest overall score won. It was…
This is a short summary of the most important milestones along the way designing The FOG and creatinig a new business: May 17 - I started creating my first board game "The Round Market"Nov 17 - First playtesting with friends. They liked it but were not thrilledMay 18 - Playtesting…
After the posts written last October and November I have realized that it was to early for me to start blogging and therefore took a timeout. No it is time to start again - and I will write continuously about the The Path to Kickstarter for my first game The…
Well, many have asked me what comes next after the SPIEL 19 show, so I will try to answer this question.I went to the SPIEL to see if The FOG has the potential to be a Kickstarter (a crowdfunding platform). I was overwhelmed from the positive feedback, so I think…
Wowhh, there now is the first review of The FOG online on a gaming website (boardgamemonkeys). Fantastic. I am just happy. It is in German. https://www.boardgamemonkeys.com/2019/10/the-fog.html
Hello ! Finally. My first own game developed. What a wonderful feeling. And now my first own website in Wordpress. Great. It was sweat and tears - and a lot of help from friends and others. Thank you!! Right now I am just happy. But the first trade show is…
